And Life Lights Up: Moments That Matter

Let Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life.

With Alice as a guide, explore the steps and ways to live a conscious life and focus on the goodness of the world around us. Alice's beautiful and captivating writing is an act of mindfulness in itself, and she shares her favourite moments in life, encouraging us to ponder our own. Alice also inspires the reader to be attentive to the here and now and embrace moments as they arise.

A beautiful and enchanting book by a bestselling and celebrated author.

Table of Contents

Introduction – Golden Moments 9

Part 1 AWARENESS

Out of Our Minds page 15

Meeting the Morning 21

Repairs and Maintenance 29

Afternoon Tea 35

An Ordinary Day 39

Finding My Feet 45

The Wonder of Wood 51

Take Good Care of Me 56

Part 2 ROOTS

Beauty from Boredom 67

The Gap 73

The Well 77

The Fort Field 82

The Sacred Earth 90

Part 3 SPECIAL MOMENTS IN THE GARDEN

Dancing with the Day 101

Red and Yellow 104

Black Gold 107

Blue Brilliance 112

Fresh Flowers 115

Waiting … 124

The Plantsman 129

An Old Tree 133

Part 4 SMALL KINDNESSES

The Black Bubble 143

Beautiful Mind 147

Battered Chalice 152

Never Suppress a Good Impulse 156

Let It Be 161

A Passing Kindness 165

Part 5 THEN AND NOW

The Agony and the Ecstasy 172

A Time to Write 178

From There to Here 182

Refeathering the Nest 189

It Takes So Long to Say Goodbye 193

Both Sides Now 197